The British Congolese playwright earned the $25,000 prize for her memoir-monologue that deals with Black identity and displacement. By Sarah Bahr For the first time in the 44-year history of the Susan ...
As she explains her research to a visitor, Boston College School of Social Work Associate Professor Margaret Lombe draws on the pieces of paper in front of her -– not random doodles, but a succession ...
As Benedict Lombe’s play Shifters transfers to West End, she is only third black British woman to have play staged there Theatre audiences are “thirsty” for romance stories told from a black ...
British Congolese playwright receives Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her debut play, Lava, staged in 2021 at the Bush in London Benedict Lombe has won this year’s Susan Smith Blackburn prize for ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the start of this beautiful, funny two-hander by the Congolese British writer Benedict Lombe, Dre is at his ...